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Purple Yam: Scientific Name & Uses by Jema Kamarudin is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Purple yams have edible tubers with a sweet, earthy, and nutty taste similar to sweet potatoes or taro. They turn dishes vivid purple due to high anthocyanin levels. Purple yams are valued for their starchy tubers, which can be processed and used as a carbohydrate-rich food or to produce animal feed, fructose, pharmaceuticals, and bioplastics. They have a long cultivation history spreading from Asia to Africa and the Americas, and are now primarily grown in West Africa and Southeast Asia.
- Author
- Jema Kamarudin
- Language
- EN